The conversation between the US Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took place within the Vance Agenda at the Munich Security Conference, days after the phone call of President Donald Trump's president with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The United States vice president, JD Vance, met on Friday in Munich with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, amid Washington's efforts for ending the war between the European country and his neighbor Russia.
The conversation between Vance and Zelenskyy was “good” and will be “the first, not the last,” spokesmen said.
The future of conflict between Moscow and kyiv is the main theme of the Munich Security Conference Agend together to reach a cessation in hostilities.
Many in Europe expect the meeting to shed light on Trump's ideas for a negotiated agreement in the war, about to fulfill its third anniversary.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was traveling to Germany to join the conversations, but his itinerary was delayed by mechanical failures on the plane that transported him to the European country. Rubio had to return to US territorybut another aircraft is expected to take its agenda in Munich, according to the state department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce.
For his part, Vance began the day on Friday with a meeting with the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Mark Rutte, in which he reiterated the efforts of the White House so that the transatlantic alliance increases the defense expense. At present, 23 of the 32 member countries meet the objective of spending 2 % of their GDP in defense.
“NATO is, of course, a very important military alliance, of which we are the most significant part,” said Vance. “But we want to make sure that NATO is really prepared for the future, and we believe that a large part of that is to ensure that NATO shares the load with Europe a little more, so that the United States can concentrate on some of our challenges in the East of Asia ”.
Rutte said he agreed that Europe needs to increase its effort. “We have to mature in that regard and spend much more,” he said.
Trump and Putin spoke on the phone This week to talk about efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine. The US president also communicated with Zelenskyy in a separate call.
“The war in Ukraine has to end,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “Young people are being killed never seen since World War II. And it is a ridiculous war. ”
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the largest in the European continent since World War II.
(With information from The Associated Press and Reuters)